Big Brother!

My may 21 baby is going to be a big sister any day now. She is my third so she has 2 older siblings to help her out but you have 8 months still and a lot of growing happens during that time. Just stay excited and talk about baby lots. Talk about what will baby need when they come and how can the older sibling can help with the new baby.

My son was born May 1st 2018 and we're 7 weeks 3 days with our 2nd baby. So far we've just made a habit of acknowledging there is a baby in my tummy and to be gentle and give kisses. We also got him some books on becoming a big brother. He's a big mommas boy so hopefully he adjusts okay 😅

I would constantly talk to him about my bump and say things like “Aw this is your baby brother or sister!” I started telling him he was a big brother and he started saying “Bubba!” We let him hold a stuffed animal a lot. I found a bIg brother book and we read it almost every night. When my daughter first got here he was a little unsure when she stuck around 🤣 (about a week) BUT now at almost 3 months they love each other soo much!

My son was born May 15th, 2018 and my daughter was born May 31st the following year. My son doesn’t communicate very well either and he did not “like” our daughter for the first few months. Wanted nothing to do with her even if we tried to hold her close to him or try and have him touch her or anything. She’s about 5 1/2 months now and he’s just now acknowledging her, so it may take some for your little one to fully understand. But eventually they do come around 😊

My son was born 5/4/18 and baby #2 is due 6/27/20. We’ve been talking about it to him occasionally. He’s pretty verbal so he understands the words were saying but obviously has no idea what he’s in for, haha. When we ask if he wants to have a baby live with us at our house he says yes. We had an ultrasound at 7 weeks and he really likes looking at the ultrasound pictures. Of course they look nothing like a baby yet, but we told him it’s a baby so he points to the pictures and says “baby”. He is interested in babies but is a super active kid so likely won’t be great at playing gentle! We haven’t told our families about the pregnancy yet so we are trying to be a little careful with what we teach him so he doesn’t somehow spill the beans!Loved the idea someone gave about reading books about having a baby sibling. Our guy loves books so this could be great. We’re also putting a baby doll on his Christmas list.

My may 10 baby is big sis to her sister born on oct 15 2019 She was so jealous id also nearly fully weaned her to 1 small feed at night before bed soon as she saw baby suckling weve had a huge regression to the point in struggling to feed her solids worried shes going to be deficient in thing im sure her irons low she will drink some pineapple juice so i sneak floradix in it But same time she tries to kiss her pat her even sniffs her other times I literally have to hide the baby caise she wants her hat socks or to poke her eyes or squash her lol its awsome but totally chaotic lmao and tiring but we'll worth it Good thing is may baby lilith helps with enforcement lol i was 11 days over due so there 17months 5 days tween them I was due the 4th so would have been under 17After I fed both of them....so drainingLittle 4 week old oct 15thRegression will insist she have a dummy which she never had as an infant lolHer sniffing her2nd dayDay after realised baby was still hereNot impressed at the new humanConfused faceWtf is this thing take it back 🤣

My daughter's younger too (born May 26) and I'm 15 weeks. She too is behind on vocabulary, though she understands me well. I doubt she'll understand she's going to have a little brother or sister soon, so I've just come to terms with that. Recently we've been playing back and forth with our bellybuttons and she'd show me hers, I'd show her mine, etc. And I would point to my belly and say "baby" and talk to her about the baby that's growing. I don't think she'll actually grasp that she'll have another sibling, but I'm hoping she'll understand mommy's going through some changes.

My firstborn is also a May 2018 baby and I'm 31 weeks pregnant with the second. I bought him a baby boy doll (having another boy) and he has been feeding it and taking care of it. He quickly learned to say "baby" to the doll, so every time he said it I pointed to my bump and told him that there's a baby in there. Eventually the day came when he pointed to my bump and said baby (he's been doing it ever since). I don't know to what extent he "understands" that I'm pregnant, but he definitely knows by now what a baby is and that he needs to be gentle to it.

We read books about it frequently. Heck, we are done and I am still reading the books!We had the Little Critter New Baby book, two big brother books and the Berenstain Bears New Baby book.